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Transfer In Handedness In The Rat Induced By Acetylcholine And Forced Practice, Charles A. Baker Dec 1950

Transfer In Handedness In The Rat Induced By Acetylcholine And Forced Practice, Charles A. Baker

Psychology ETDs

This study was designed to discover the effects of local applications of acetylcholine to the cerebral cortex of the rat in conjunction with forced reaching on handedness.


Psychometric Problems Related To Cerebral Palsy, Dorothy Sievers Aug 1950

Psychometric Problems Related To Cerebral Palsy, Dorothy Sievers

Psychology ETDs

Statistics have shown that there are about seven children who are born with or acquire cerebral palsy per year for every 100,000 population (7). This means that there are nearly 400,000 cerebral palsied persons under the age of 40 in the United States today (15). Cerebral palsy may be described as a disfunctioning of the nerves and muscles caused by damage to certain certain centers of the brain.


Rhythmic Methods Of Teaching Motor Skills, Jeannette Pruyn Reed May 1950

Rhythmic Methods Of Teaching Motor Skills, Jeannette Pruyn Reed

Psychology ETDs

It was the purpose of this study reported herein to evaluate three different methods of teaching motor skills in children: (1) the Laissez-Faire or minimum instruction method; (2) the addition of a rhythmic nursery song to minimum instruction; and (3) directive speech added in the form of song to concentrate attention and synchronize the action with words describing that action.


Personality Differences Of Acculturating Navaho Adolescent Girls As Revealed By The Rorschach Test, Marianne A. Fink May 1950

Personality Differences Of Acculturating Navaho Adolescent Girls As Revealed By The Rorschach Test, Marianne A. Fink

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The purposes of this study were; (1) to investigate and describe the group personality structure, by means of the Rorschach Test, of two groups of Navaho adolescent girls, differing primarily in amount of white school education; (2) to indicate differences between the two groups, and between each of the two groups and the data collected by others on adolescent girls in white society; (3) to offer interpretations for these differences.